The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tanning So 600 beds and employing 10000 serv-
ants The gross income from these hotels is
considerably more than the annual budget or
the Confederation.
THE Paris municipality has under consdera-
ton NJ Labodie's scheme for widening and
deepening the Seine sufficiently to make Paris
seaport The cost of the work. as estimated by
NJ. Labodie, will be 40GOO,OOOf.
For rapidly getting on in the world, the palm
is awarded to young man in Palmyra, Me
This spring he has been elected a Selectman, an
Assessor of Taxes, an OveIseer OF the poor, a
fence viewer and field driver and supervisor OF
schools and has got married.
THE first published volume of poeIrr by any
American was by Mrs Anne Bradstreet, the
wife of Simeon Bradstreet, one of the early
Governors of the colony of Massachusetts, The
volume was published in London in 1850.
more complete edition was published in Boston
in 1873.
A WEALTHY retired merchant of San Francisco
has adopted a late custom Of Nine. Bernhard,
and keeps his coffin in a spare room. The curl
OsitV is a beautiful specimen of the undertaken
art. and ON the gold plate is the owners name,
with q blank space left for the date of death and
the age.
Mrs. MARY SAVAGE, of Greenwood, Mass, has
a daughter granddaughter, great granddaugh
ter and great great granddaughter all residing
in Norway. Me II is an ubroken line of fe
males or TVe generations lQeT ages are as
follows: First 81, second So, third 36, fourth II,
fifth lOnthS
| IT seems strange that out of more than 10000
species of plants known to botanists only about
POO have been PIT to use by man; but this pro
portion is much greater than in the animal
world, from which only 200 species have been
selected, while the animal kingdom reckonS
millions of species.
AN amateur dramatic society of Lauscha,
has inst nd he
fftieth anniversary of its organization. 1t IRE
| Sented q play in which two of its original mem
| bers appeared. They were rs and Z years Of
| age. During the whole period of its existence
the society has never had any serious disSen-
| sions.
| In the little town of DEBORAH, county seat of
| Winneshek in northeastern Iowa. detective
OF the hunting committee of the Prohbtionists
entered the Lutheran church during divine
| vice and forbade the use of wine at the Lords
| Supper under threat of immediate arrest He
was thrown out of the church and the service
| finished.
LITTLE old woman in tattered attire sells
matches on the streets of Philadelphia. She is
named Maria Louisa Hancock, and claims rela-
| tionShip to the dead General. Although appa-
rently very poor, she is said to be worth $4,000.
| She secures her entire sustenance from free
! lunch counters in saloons where she sells
matches.
sists chiefly of hard fat, and is a store Of
| nourishment provided against the day of want,
| to which the animal in q wild state, is often
posed The drOmedary or camel can exist for
an extended period on this hump without any
food and il will not die of want until the hump
has been entirely absorbed.
RECENT OBSERVATIONS are said to indicate the
existence of a submarine volcanic crater be
tween the Canary islands and the coast of Por-
| tugal. From a cable-laying steamer in lat. 80
| dogs. p min. north, long dogs. 81 min. west,
| the water was found to measure 300 fathoIuS
| under the stern, showing the snip to be over the
| edge of deep depression in the ocean bottom
| ST LOUIS is already bidding for the next
| Democratic National Convention. The RepubJi-
can says its streets are cleaner and better paved ;
| its buildings both for business and residence
! handsOmer and its places Of amusement more
! numerous and better conducted than when the
convention that nominated Tiiden and Hem
| bricks met there in 1876 and it says the stay of
| delegates and visitors would be made exceed
| ingly agreeable"
TIE Improvement in the British ship-building
| yards is progressing. Thus, from the report of
the Clyde trade for January, it appears that the
total tonnage of vessels launched during that
| period was Is $50 tons which is a very favorable
| beginning compared with recent years, while
| new orders received represent close on 10000
| tons. The output last month ten vessels,
| measuring 16,960 tons, as compared with FIVE
|
| teen vessels of 10 100 tons January, 1855
Coy BARTLETT, of California. during recent
official visit to Red Bluff, was waited upon by a
| delegation of fifty young ladies' each of whom
| gave him bouquet and kiss. The local chron-
| lcler records that as the last one laid down her
| floral offering and the kiss on the Governor !
| lips he looked up, glorious expectancy pictured
| in every lineament of his countenance and said:
| Come on; it shall never he said that 49e~
| quailed before the bewitching eyes and rosy,
| pOuting lips of fair wOman--nO, not a thousand
| daughters of the Golden West"
ONE of the strangest of religious sects is that
which calls itself the New and Latter House of
| Israel It's headquarters is at Chatham Eng
in which town its devotees are building an i'm
mense temple, which will cost S25O,OOO They
| believe that they will not die and that they are
| the remnant of true Israelites who will reign
| with Christ for thousand years. Their founder
| was a man named Jezriel who is now dead
| His death was great shock to the believers,
| nut his wife claimed that it was an accident
| and declared herself TO be his successor.
THE University Association of Brass Collectors
at Cambridge, Eng, has not been formed by ex
uberant youths who find infinite wit in wrench
| ing the brass knockers from the doors of peace
| full cts, nor is it slangy way to express
society bound to make money. This aesthetic
| association proposes to 90 about England taking
''TubbingS' from the brass monuments to the
! rich and great of former centuries in order to
SECURE a Oh record OF lnOSe curious works
of mortuary art before they are completely de
| stroyed by the vestrymeu and the elements.
! NINE. AUBERNoN gives literary dinners in Paris
and rules them like a strict parliamentarian
She has a silver bell at her side to ring for order
| and She gives each guest his turn to speak One
| evening NJ. Renan was talking when one of the
lesser lights tried 10 say something in an under
| tone. She peremptorily sileuced him, and a
| few moments later when NJ Renan had finished
! his monOlogue, she tapped the bell and said 10
! the unfortunate, Now monsieur, YOU NAV
| speak But. mon Dieu, madame" he eX-
claimed, II only wanted TO ask for some more
| spinach
Il TELL you, some funny things are brought
about by this new law affecting the pass sys
tenn said a popular conductor of the Buffalo
New FORK and Philadelphia railway 'Yester-
day, when I entered a car to take up tickets
noticed on Old fellow in the back of the car who
had gro gray under the pass system, and [
just waited up1liently to get to him and refuse
10 accept his pa-s Well had all my fun in adj
vance. for he didn't offer any pass at all He
fumbled around in nervous sort of way in every
pocket. and finally iished out u ticket dated Feb
| -, 1871"
A NEwsPAPER REPORTER at Leavenworth, Kan,
who made few pungent observations about
public affairs, was toolishly threatened with a
coat Of tar and feathers. The Mayor, referring
20 II in humorous speech, said: ~ am told
that the idea is not wholly Objectionable 10 him.
as he thinks that an accurate description of the
process could only be- written by one who had
experienced the sensation Such TX professional